Maine USA-1971: Trees Emerging from Flooded Lake in Winter

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Year1971
Decade1970s
LocationMaine, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1971 Maine

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Trees Emerging from Flooded Lake in Winter — Clip Details

MAINE USA-1971: A haunting 8mm home movie captures a flooded lakeside landscape, with bare, gnarled trees emerging from deep blue water. The camera pans slowly across the scene, revealing a grassy field and distant hills under a pale sky. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film grain, a cool blue color cast, and subtle lens flare, evoking a sense of quiet melancholy and forgotten Americana. This archival clip offers a nostalgic glimpse into a rural 1970s environment, perfect for documentary, editorial, or nostalgic content.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 123062722

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Commercial Direct license: commercial and editorial use. $149 flat from Stockfilm. Royalty-free worldwide license for commercial and editorial use, delivered as the restored 4K master.

Editorial use is the safest path. For commercial use, a clearance review is recommended for the flags below.

People visible: Yes
Minors visible: No
Logos / trademarks: No
Audible music: No

Flags come from automated catalog metadata, not a legal opinion. The source is an original 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie reel. For high-stakes commercial use, request a full rights review.

Source & Documentation

Source reel: Reel 1008 · Super 8 · 7″ reel
Reel-level year note: 1971
Reel-level location note: new york,vermont,new hampshire,maine
Date: 1971 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level note shows the same year, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
Location: Maine, United States Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level location note is linked, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
Licensing route: Direct license available from Stockfilm

Confidence labels are defined on Archive Integrity. Fields without a recorded value are shown as not recorded rather than assumed.

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1971 Maine 8mm footage helps document rural lakeside flooding, bare trees in water, and quiet landscape atmosphere for documentary inserts or environmental cutaways.
Period detail: The clip may show early 1970s home-movie travel footage, with open fields, distant low hills, and a roadside or lakeside viewpoint supported by the 1971 Maine metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The slow panning view feels like an unstaged traveler or family observer pausing to record an unusual flooded shoreline rather than a planned scenic setup.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include blue floodwater, leafless trees, reflected branches, grassy fields, distant hills, a small fence-like object, pale sky, and tiny distant people or figures.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries cool blue color bias, soft focus, gate edges, handheld framing, and visible film grain that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a quiet transition, environmental cutaway, memory beat, or rural landscape insert in a sequence about water, weather, travel, or place.
Historical context: The footage provides a visual record of a rural Maine waterside landscape in 1971 without proving the cause, duration, or severity of the flooding shown.
Research note: People may be visible only as tiny distant figures, so likeness risk appears limited, while copyright, location, and any property considerations still require normal review.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1971 Maine 8mm flooded lake, rural home movie waterlogged trees, Super 8 roadside landscape, and bare trees in blue water.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1971 Maine material, then rural flooding, lakeside scenery, roadside travel, or 1970s nature cutaways.

Still Frames From This Clip

1971 Maine 8mm frame showing bare trees emerging from blue water near a grassy lakeside edge. — Bare waterside trees rise from blue floodwater along a grassy bank.

1971 Maine 8mm view across blue floodwater toward leafless trees, a green field, distant hills, and tiny distant people or figures. — A flooded lakeside view opens toward a green field and distant hills.

1971 Maine home-movie frame with leafless trees reflected in blue floodwater and a grassy field in the background. — Reflected branches and a flooded tree line fill the lakeside frame.

1971 Maine 8mm frame showing a large leafless tree, brush, and reflections in blue flooded water near a small fence-like object. — A large bare tree and brush stand in the flooded lakeside water.

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